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Job Information:

Job Title: Senior Program Officer, Digital Public Infrastructure
Job Schedule: Full time
Locations: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Apply Before: 11/20/2025

Your Role:

We seek an experienced and driven Senior Program Officer, DPI, who will collaborate strategically to co-develop and co-manage one or more portfolios of grants and contracts requiring grant management skills, monitoring, and evaluation, to support the development and scaling of DPIs in Sub-Saharan Africa. As a topical expert, you will be a technical advisor to other foundation programs seeking to implement their solutions with a DPI approach. You will also work collaboratively with a global team to contribute to refine and track progress against the team’s strategic vision. The role will require working with a diverse range of internal colleagues/ teams, technical and scientific partners, governments, multilateral institutions across a wide array of domains and expertise. International experience, strategy development, communications, partnership development, and deep technical expertise are crucial for success in this role.

The postholder will be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and report to the Director, Economic Opportunity, Africa, in close collaboration with the Deputy Director, DPI.

Your Experience:

We are looking for a recognized global professional with deep expertise about DPIs in low-and middle-income countries. Additional knowledge and skills include:

Advanced degree required with 10+ years of demonstrated experience in a senior technical advisory role in Africa, ideally for tech companies, government, consultancy, think tanks, NGOs or similar.
Depth of technical, economic, and political understanding of the DPI ecosystem in Africa and how it is evolving in priority geographies – including key trends, barriers, and opportunities to test high impact use cases for under-resourced and underserved populations.
Depth of knowledge of low-and-middle income contexts, as well as the experience of historically marginalized groups (e.g. women, poor, rural).
Experience with social impact investing and an eye towards impact for marginalized groups, scale, and sustainability.
Can collaborate effectively and with diplomacy to produce high-quality, high-impact outputs in a matrixed organization.
Excellent strategic thinker and strategy development experience.
Experience managing grant portfolios and an understanding of the role of donors in advancing DPI efforts, is desirable.
Demonstrated ability to organize/prioritize work and meet deadlines within a fast-paced environment with multiple and competing demands.
An innovative thinker who is hands-on and willing to go as deep or broad as necessary to achieve outcomes.
Demonstrated ability to question and challenge colleagues in a constructive manner.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, able to effectively synthesize information to reach diverse audiences and create consensus. French language skills will be an advantage.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates should send their application through Online [Apply-Now]. For more details visit official website: www.gatesfoundation.org

BMGF Overview:

The Gates Foundation is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates. Based in Seattle, Washington, it was launched in 2000 and is reported to be the third-wealthiest charitable foundation in the world, holding $77.2 billion in assets as of December 31, 2024. The primary stated goals of the foundation are to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty across the world, and to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology in the US. Key individuals of the foundation include Warren Buffett, chief executive officer Mark Suzman, and Michael Larson.